Stamps took out the Pride In Print Supreme Award after the major prize had, on the awards night, gone to Auckland’s Logick Print.
After he became aware that only items entirely printed in New Zealand can enter the awards, Logick director Dave Gick asked Pride In Print management to disqualify his entry. Logick’s Babich Wines 100-year wine presentation piece had some elements in it printed overseas.
As a result, the awards committee bestowed the supreme award on Southern Colour Print for its New Zealand Post stamps work which won the Industry Development Category.
Sue Archibald, awards manager, says, “The final decision on the Supreme Award Winner had come down to the wire at judging between the two jobs and the Logick entry was considered to just have the advantage.
“With Logick now advising that part of this work was produced by an overseas supplier it is clear the judges’ final decision would have been influenced if this information was known at the time and therefore Southern Colour Print’s entry would have won the day.”
Archibald and Awards chair Scott Porter praised Dave Gick for his integrity. In a statement, they said: “The principles of Pride In Print champion honesty and transparency. Those principles are shared by the people in our industry.
“It is a reflection of those principles that Dave chose to voluntarily bring this to the attention of the Awards Committee. It is commendable Dave has taken the steps to withdraw from such a huge prize as supreme winner. The awards committee is in complete agreement in taking decisive action, and the supreme prize will now go to Southern Colour Print.”
Print it black
following its decision to make Southern Colour Print the supreme award winner, the Pride In Print Awards Committee organised a special presentation in Southern Colour Print’s home town of Dunedin.
Dunedin mayor Dave Cull presented the supreme award to Sean McMahon, managing director of Southern Colour Print, at the ceremony held in the Octagon. The presentation took place in front of an audience that included Pride In Print patrons and sponsors; Otago printing industry luminaries and stalwarts; representatives from New Zealand Post; and staff and management from Southern Colour Print.
Mayor Cull congratulated Southern Colour Print for showing how an Otago company can successfully compete on the international business stage. He said, “Dunedin is renowned for leading the way in business creativity, innovation and excellence.
“Southern Colour Print’s achievement in winning this coveted award exemplifies these qualities and reinforces Dunedin’s reputation as one of the world’s great small cities – an internationally competitive and growing knowledge centre.”
Southern Colour Print has a rich tradition of awards success and innovation and remains a staunch supporter of Pride In Print. Sean McMahon says, “This is our first supreme award and we are obviously quite happy. We have previously won two category awards and about 61 gold medals.”
He took a team of 20 staff to the event. He adds, “We are quite chuffed that so many patrons and sponsors made the effort to be there.”
On awards night, Mick Cullen, production manager at Southern Colour Print, represented the company to accept the Industry Development Category Award. McMahon, still upbeat about the initial result, says, “I wasn’t at the awards. I had tickets to the Highlanders match against the Crusaders in Dunedin, which the Highlanders won.
“Mick told me on the Friday night and said, ‘You are not going to believe what happened; we made it to the finals.’ He was standing up on the stage thinking, ‘Geez, I hope we don’t win,’ because he didn’t want to give a speech.”
The stamps that took out this year’s supreme award feature mini cut-outs of the actual World Cup-winning jerseys. They use the actual material of the jerseys worn by the All Blacks.
The end result according to Pride In Print judges: “A stunning stamp, yet perfectly useable for postage. “
Using rugby jersey fabric for a stamp marks an industry first and the feat has won international recognition from postal authorities, stamp enthusiasts, and Adidas.
McMahon describes the work as a true team effort. He says, “Looking back on it, because there were so many technical challenges for it to all come together in the end, it really involved everyone. Solutions to the numerous technical challenges came from all areas of the company.”
Category winners
Presence in the marketplace gave Cuisine Magazine’s June/July 2015 edition the Publications Category prize. PMP Christchurch produced the 174-page glossy. Its feature on chock a block tarts, crumbles, puddings, and cakes includes a cover image of a chocolate and cream pudding to excite reader’s taste buds.
Wellington-based Service Printers won the Business Print Category for what judges described as, “The faultless beauty and precision of an annual report.”
End customer REANNZ connects students and researchers with each other and the rest of the world via a high-capacity, high-speed network. Judges said, “The brochure captured its brand and featured diagonally-cut pages, giving a distinctive look and immediately attracting the eye of the reader.”
Stimulating youngsters to write formed the basis of a playing card game that brought the Packaging Category prize to Wellington’s Printlink.
Four packs of 65 cards contain topics, themes and ideas to interest youngsters. The Ministry of Education came up with the idea of a playing card set with a target audience of children aged between five and eight who need that extra push to get them to read and write.
Children select cards with ideas on them, and when they pair those up with other cards they end up having to come up with a story idea linking the various themes. Judge Dave Wilson says, “The Game of Awesome is really awesome. Every component fits together perfectly in the packs and the box they are kept in. It matches the customer’s needs perfectly.”
The Magnum Americana Freezer Label took the Labels Category award for Impressions International Limited of Penrose. Looking as delicious as the finished product; the judges said, “So much so it looks as good as the ice cream itself.”
The label had to convey the appeal of a chocolate peanut crunch crust on a delicious ice cream, and judges said it achieved that with mouth-watering perfection, giving it a fantastic lustre that made the buyer almost think it real.
When the QAMR Scottish Squadron arose again as a New Zealand regiment, it needed a flag to proudly show its new status to the world. The squadron chose Flagmakers, and the perfection of the entry carried enough weight to carry off the Display Print prize for the Hutt Valley company.
The fighting unit had seen service in Gallipoli, Crete, and North America. The New Zealand Defence Force asked Flagmakers to produce a twin-sided flag in the yellow and black colours of Wellington, with the regiment’s crest, crown and motto taking centre stage. They achieved the result printing on two sheets of material that they had to manually line up back-to-back for precise registration.
For more than a century, Dunstall’s Funeral Services has had the privilege of helping families in the Hawkes Bay community during their time of loss. When it came to the delicate task of creating a marketing campaign to guide a person on how to choose the format of their own funeral, Dunstall’s chose Brebner Print to commission a beautifully-crafted set of printed materials to help people face the practicalities in a sensitive and caring way.
The design of a tray, insert, sleeve and booklets, complemented with Brebner’s printing prowess succeeded in winning the Promotional Print Category. Judges said that the Dunstall’s brochures show sensitivity in taking people through an emotional and personal journey, and the printing and design combined to ease that journey.
Process Winners
Offset – Design Bind for the Year in Porsche
Gravure- Gravure Packaging for Healtheries Real Food Bar, Ginger & Lemon
Flexo – Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific for So Crispy Classic Chicken
Digital – Kinetic Digital for Powershop Customer Experience Manual
Screen – Southen Print for Feltex Green 100 per cent Triexta Yarn
Inkjet – APC Innovate for Puraty Potent Organic Teas Shipper
Letterpress – Willy Coenradi for Little Wing
